| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: instruments that had been stolen from Glinda and Ozma and the Wizard,
with glass doors covering the shelves so that no one could get at
them.
And in a far corner sat Ugu the Shoemaker, his feet lazily extended,
his skinny hands clasped behind his head. He was leaning back at his
ease and calmly smoking a long pipe. Around the magician was a sort
of cage, seemingly made of golden bars set wide apart, and at his
feet, also within the cage, reposed the long-sought diamond-studded
dishpan of Cayke the Cookie Cook. Princess Ozma of Oz was nowhere to
be seen.
"Well, well," said Ugu when the invaders had stood in silence for a
The Lost Princess of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: their skill in the sciences, they are either very awkward or
defective, though they have globes or spheres, and a smattering of
the mathematics, and think they know more than all the world
besides. But they know little of the motions of the heavenly
bodies; and so grossly and absurdly ignorant are their common
people, that when the sun is eclipsed, they think a great dragon
has assaulted it, and is going to run away with it; and they fall a
clattering with all the drums and kettles in the country, to fright
the monster away, just as we do to hive a swarm of bees!
As this is the only excursion of the kind which I have made in all
the accounts I have given of my travels, so I shall make no more
Robinson Crusoe |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: "You make a distinction between persuading and commanding?
It's very neat. But the distinction is in favor of commanding.
That rather spoils it."
"We have not the least objection to defining our position,"
said M. de Bellegarde. "We understand that it should not at first
appear to you quite clear. We rather expected, indeed, that you
should not do us justice."
"Oh, I'll do you justice," said Newman. "Don't be afraid.
Please proceed."
The marquise laid her hand on her son's arm, as if to deprecate
the attempt to define their position. "It is quite useless,"
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